IACUC Policy on the Training of Persons Involved in Animal-Related Tasks
August 1990
The following section of the US Animal Welfare Act obligates the IACUC to consider the training of personnel involved in animal-related work:
Sect. 2.31 Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees
(d) IACUC review of activities involving animals ...Accordingly, (1) Canisius faculty members involved in, or supervising, the care, handling, or treatment, of animals will be expected to satisfy the IACUC of satisfactory knowledge and/or training regarding the procedures to be employed. This will ordinarily occur as part of the protocol-review process by the provision of relevant biographical and background information in the application.
(viii) Personnel conducting procedures on the species being maintained or studied will be appropriately qualified and trained in those procedures; (Federal Register, 54(168), 36152, August 31, 1989; see Section 2.32, 36153-4 for some details on what is meant by "appropriately qualified and trained")
Furthermore, (2) a faculty member will be expected to provide in-person training, or personally verify the ability of, any one else involved in such activities before he or she is allowed to conduct such tasks in the absence of direct supervision. A written record should be kept specifying each training session, including the name of all persons involved and the nature and extent of their training, this record being kept available for inspection by the college IACUC.